Course content

Due to international migration flows the Norwegian society has become more socially and culturally diverse. What diversity means and how we as a society should respond to this diversity are therefore fundamental questions. Integration has in this regard often been presented both as a goal and a means. But what do we mean when we talk about, work with or contribute to integration? And on which understandings of culture and society do various understandings of the word integration rest? The course will provide knowledge about various aspects of diversity and integration as historical and cultural phenomena and as transcultural dynamics.

A humanistic perspective on equality and difference provides the basis for raising new issues and new ways of exploring cultural and societal understandings. In this course this is done through thematic organized project work.

Learning outcome

Learning outcomes

Candidates who have completed this course will have knowledge of:

- social and cultural consequences og international migration
- central aspects regarding the concepts of diversity and integration
- how the humanities can contribute to our understandingo f diversity and integration as cultural phenomena and ideals

Candidates who have completed this course will have the skills to:

- define and use central concepts regarding diversity, integration, culture, ‘Nowegianess’, equality, inequality, sameness and difference
- apply theoretical concepts and analytical tools to reflect upon widespread ideas and pre regarding ethnicity/nationallity, gender, sexuality, regigion, language and other ways of categorizing people and groups
- formulate a research question related to a given topic and answer it by taking part in a project

General competencies
Students who complete this course will have general competencies in
- Collaborative learning
- Project work

Learning methods and activities

Six weeks of lectures followed by six weeks of seminar training, where the students work on a project in interdisciplinary groups. The project is presented in the end.

Compulsory activities:
- Project outline / project plan
- Weekly logs during the project period
- Presentation of the project

All compulsory activities are conducted in groups. All activities must be approved in order for the student to pass the exam.

Compulsory assignments

• Project plan
• Weekly logs
• Project presentation

Credit reductions